Archive for January, 2009

Mike Castle Pays Minner Confused Compliment

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Everybody is laying smootches on Ruthie. Republican congressman Michael Castle, who like Minner was a two-term governor, said she had risen from humble roots to lead Delaware “with great passion and pride” as the state’s first female governor. He also noted that as a state lawmaker, Minner could be a tough negotiator and knew how […]

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WTF is Biden Thinking?

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During today’s swearing in ceremony from the floor of the U.S. Senate, there will be one man who really doesn’t need the job. Vice President-elect Joe Biden, having been reelected to his seventh term as the Senator from Delaware, will be sworn in with the rest of the incoming class. And with the 111th Congress […]

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Transparency & Accountability

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It is Jan 6th 2009 and I weigh 188 pounds. I want to get back to 168 pounds for a bit and settle at 170 pounds (12.14 stone) Everyone may feel free to mock me mercilessly beginning on Jan 6th of 2010 if I fail in this endeavor.

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QOD II

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Is the Burger King Whopper Virgin ad campaign a fantastic display American Capitalism?

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Carolann Wicks To Stay On At DelDot

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Okay. There is this… Wicks is the president of the Northeast Association of State Transportation Officials, which is playing a leading role in representing states’ interests to the federal government as the stimulus plan is being designed. The package will generate tens of millions of dollars’ worth of needed infrastructure improvements and is expected to […]

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QOD

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Does murdering innocent people win over the hearts and minds of the people you don’t want to kill you?

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Fact of the Day

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The Jews lived in Libya and historically got along for centuries with the Libyans.  Then all hell broke loose when the Italians (that had a presence in Libya) sided with Germany. April 3, 1941 the Italians and the Germans unleashed hell on the jews that lived in Libya for taking sides with the British. In […]

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Rootsgap

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Read the Whole thing. While this Panetta appointment is a glaring example of the rootsgap, I am comforted by the fact that the most craven of craven politicos like Tom Carper will soon be trying to “out liberal” their Senate colleagues.

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I Wasn’t Sure How I Felt About Panetta Until…

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Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller – two of Bush’s most ardent enablers – came out against him.  Now, just like Glenn Greenwald, I’m lovin’ the pick.  Spencer Ackerman reports that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is upset with the selection of Panetta, petulantly complaining that she wasn’t consulted in advance and that it would be best to have […]

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Integral Part of GOP Plan

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Integral Part of GOP Plan

Yes, it is the return of the imaginary GOP magical unicorn. The GOP hopes that this mythical beast will help solve our the country’s economic mess and their failed ideology.

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Parasitic Delaware Compared To Ireland (Or Vice Versa)

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Over the past ten years Ireland was able to attracted a bunch of low life human and corporate weasels from the EU and America who think rich people (and rich corporations) should not pay their fair share of taxes. Well, the party is over and Ireland is busted, but Steve Forbes still thinks everybody should […]

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GOP Death Spiral

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In light of our local moronic windbag’s migration to twitter, this made me laugh:  The key to electoral success for the GOP is not an elite strike force of blithering idiots spamming everyone’s email with bullshit about Obama’s birth certificate. The nation doesn’t need a trillion twitters about William Ayers, they need a Republican party […]

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Fish in a Barrell

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6ojm62qwA&eurl=http://susiemadrak.com/[/youtube] Unfortunately though, the fish happen to be baby and mommy fish and the shooters are using shotguns.   Can anyone tell me what other country bombed the living shit out of an Arab country killing tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of civilians and excusing it every step of the way?

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